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Editorials:
___pitol dome:
By STEVE ERICKSON
That dreaded late-Spring atrocity, the
graduation speech, was not, after all, immortal.
traditional
Reports from across the nation bring news that it is,
mercifully, dying as the now-generation rejects the platitudes
of its elders and perfects a set of its own.
This is good news for parents and graduates alike. It is
much easier to bear the breathless heat of the
bottom-numbing ceremony if there is some uncertainty
concerning the subject of the inevitable speeches.
A distillation of all the "'Whither, now" speeches endured
during a lifetime would approximate the following:
"Ever onward, ever upward might be, all things
considered, the motto of not only these, but others who have
gone before them, throughout the history of this, not to
mention additional, with which we are all thoroughly
familiar. We, the graduates, are ever mindful that if it were
not for that, bolstered by those great men who gave us this
heritage not only at great sacrifice and danger to themselves
but, God willing, those who followed, in a word, the precepts
fostered with the knowledge that it is right and fitting. We
have inherited this mantle and willingly accept it, although
we realize that it will take not only dedication but, in the
words of Benjamin Franklin, who prepared the fertile soil in
which we will, in all humility, probably see fit. It will not be
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
The feud within the
Republican Party organization has
ended in this state, but it has
broken out elsewhere and in a
more serious spot.
The continuous battle of
words between State Chairman C.
Montgomery Johnson and King
County Chairman Ken Rogstad
subsided with their retirement.
Their successors, Earl Davenport
and Dennis Dunn, appear to be
getting along famously.
But the conflagration within
the party machinery was little
more than a bonfire. The blaze
which has erupted amongst
Republican elective officials
rapidly is assuming forest fire
proportions.
"Team" Is Target
The principals are Republican
legislators on one side and the
three Republicans in the
executive branch on the other.
The latter three, Gov. Dan
easy, but our years of preparation in this great - I see some Evans, Secy. of State Lud Kramer
of my fellow classmates smiling - has provided, if we took and Atty. Gen. Slade Gorton,
with Art Fletcher, unsuccessful
advantage of the opportunities, that which is, when all is said candidate for Lieutenant
and done, not the least of which. Our legacy is manifest; our Governor, comprised the "team"
were slashed out of proportion to
those for the Democratic elective
offices.
True, the Democrats, who
controlled the Senate, had a hand
in it, but with the Republicans
holding a majority in the House,
they couldn't have done it
without Republican help.
Governor Evans vetoed the
section restricting Kramer's
activities, but he couldn't do
anything about the budget
slashes. Public statements by all
three executive officers since
adjournment of the Legislature,
calling for "legislative reform,"
haven't done anything to close
the breech.
Chance To Recoup?
It is hard to determine at this
time who is faring better with the
voters.
Evans, Kramer and Gorton
appear generally to be getting the
better press, but they have better
access to the media, and a bigger
sounding board. Appearances can
be misleading, as the vote on the
Governor's tax reform proved last
year.
When it comes to catching gravy, today's wide-angle,
bursting-rainbow neckties simply can't be beat. And with the
upchuck patterns on many of them, who's to know a gravy
glob from a paisley whim?
Extra-wides camouflage many a cigarette burn on the
ladylike blouses we boys wear nowadays, too, and if
excitement makes our little noses bleed, they sop it up and
serve as a tourniquet.
Multi-purpose threads, man!
There's a major drawback, though, to all this versatility
and convenience. As a friend lamented over his diet fruit
punch just yesterday, "It kills me to pay between $7.50 and
$15 each for ties."
This aspiring fashion-plate took me along one day as he
visited his right-on haberdasher in quest of something spiffy
that would propel him into any blind girl's waiting embrace. I
believe he found it - for $9. A golden-hued bib that sparkled
when he moved, glowed in the dark, and tied into a knot the
size of a yo-yo.
"Expensive," he gloated proudly, "but worth every cent of
it." He could have directed traffic in a three-ring circus with
that subdued yard of cloth draped from his Adam's apple.
We returned to the office, where another colleague toiled
through lunch. He glanced up as we entered. "Holy Barnum
and Bailey!" he commented most unkindly.
"Like it?" said Flash Necktie, misinterpreting. "Hey! Just
nine big ones."
"Nine bucks for that rag?" said our suave friend, whose
name, incidentally, was not Dale Carnegie. "You, friend, have
been had."
destiny should, like the stars, be not in spite of but because."
These innocent exercises in boredom were concocted by
duty-bound students who were interested in getting them
past the principal's blue pencil with the least possible trouble
in order to please parents who would feel a warm glow
because they raised a child who wrote a speech that satisfied
the principal.
The student who had a personal message to impart, of
course, never had the opportunity to deliver it. He can, now,
and that's what makes today's commencement speeches of
more interest than their predecessors.
The potluck offered at last week's Shelton High School
commencement exercise is a case in point. Those in
attendance heard a traditional speech, a roundup of the
problems afflicting the nation, an indictment of the Shelton
hool system, a plea for universal love and understanding,
and an updated traditional word from the superintendent
advising the students that ( 1 ) they should be responsible (2)
they didn't invent idealism (3) they should shun hypocrisy
(4) they should do an honest day's work 15) they should
thank their parents for building a better world. (All five
speeches are printed on page 14 of this issue of the Journal.)
None of the speeches will live through the ages, but their
variety is refreshing. The traditional speech was the least
because he indictment
in soft, even
that belied tho, strong words, and the Superintendent's
message was the most surprising because it was toned down
considerably from the lectures he has delivered to previous
graduating classes.
Keep up the good work, graduates. There is no place to
go but up. Ever onward, ever upward!
By DAVE AVERILL
There are all these things we've been telling ourselves for
years.
Beauty is only skin deep. Money won't buy happiness.
Unto thine own self be true. Honesty is the best policy.
These, and more; and who believes them?
The kids do.
All of us have known from childhood that you can't
judge a book by its cover. Mother used to say it, and so did
Grandmother. Along comes the new generation, a whole
library of books dressed in the wackiest covers you ever saw.
What do we do? We judge them.
Having been brought up with the knowledge that money
isn't everything and you can't take it with you, we are busy
collecting ulcers in a wild scramble for the stuff.
Confronted with kids who actually seem indifferent to
money, even to the extent of being uninterested in seeking
work, we go into a frenzy. Civilization will crumble, all
because those dumb kids believe what somebody told them.
Unto thine own self be true? Look, you've got to be a
realist in today's world. When a kid talks about doing his own
thing, slap him down.
Probably we could bear it all if it weren't for the bit
about honesty being the best policy. When a kid says, in all
honesty, that he thinks his elders are all on the wrong track -
well, about then we start climbing the wall. Can't he even
show a little tact?
from the Bainbridge Review
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which campaigned
1968.
Evans found many ':':':"
.....,.
Republican law-makers who had :':':':...
:.;.:.:
done his bidding so willingly for .:.:.:.
six years becoming decidely i~ii::i!
unruly during the 1971 session. :!:!:~:
There always had been some
i
renegades within the Republican
ranks, but it wasn't until the 1971
session that their numbers grew to
the point where they could shape
the course of legislation in the
opposing direction from what ....
:.:.-.-
,.....-.
their Governor wanted.
In Line Of Fire ~iiii!! (Editor's note: The following is
While Evans' troubles with the iiii:":ii entitled "An explanation of the war in
law-makers were the greatest,iii!iiii Vietnam for primary school children."
2::::: It was prepared by the U.S. State
because he had more dealings !!iiii!" Department Bureau 'of Public Affairs a
with them, other members of the iiii!!i
'team" also were in the line of few months ago as a response to young
fire. school children who bed written to the
::::::: President and State Department about
The Legislature wrote a ::::::: Vietnam. It is reprinted here with a
section into the budget designed ":':':"
i:i:i:~ supplement which we recommend for
to restrict the activities of ::::::: any child who might receive the State
Kramer. The budgets for both ~':':':"
::::::: Department letter.)
Kramer's and Gorton's offices :::::::
!!iiiii IETNAM is a very old country
i:i:i:i in Asia, about 8,000 miles away
Letter box: from the United States. About
iiii!iii 17 years ago, part of the Vietnamese
He pulled back the tattered folds of his
and a moth flew out, coughing. "Howd'ya
asked, revealing a candy-striped number that
even though not as star-spangled as 1971
"I give it a C-minus," sniffed he of'
"Okay a C-minus," said Mr. Tweed. "I
And I rest my case." He'sat down.
"At what elite shoppe for the thrifty
my friend.
"Where else? Rack B, Goodwill Industries.'
My friend was still blushing with sharne i
destitute, shameless Mr. Tweed as I left,
in my mind...
And sure enough, there I was today,
around my face, hat yanked down over
Incognito, I hoped. Perusing Rack B.
And just my luck, they were having a
ties marked down to 20 cents - six for a
grabbed one. It was pretty. I snatched
Before I knew it I had 80 cents worth of
neckties in my trembling hands.
At this rate, I quickly computed, I
the price The Ringmaster had paid for one.
to revive me with smelling salts when I
And so today I have a new
ensemble, a new tie for every day of the
when 1 don't wear one with my bathrobe
And eight dollars left over for the
something to go with all the new finery.
any pegged pants, down there at the
The Ntate Department's ezplanation
for school children of whF me are there
decide how to run their country for
themselves. So they asked us to help
them fight the North Vietnamese. The
South Vietnamese had showed that they
were brave people and we know that if
the North Vietnamese were not stopped
from trying to take over another
country by shooting and killing, the
other countries in Asia would be in
danger too from the communists. So we
decided to help the South Vietnamese
people, and some other countries also
decided to help. That way we hoped to
keep the war in Vietnam from becoming
a big war that might put the whole
world in danger.
America promised to help the South
Vietnamese and w~ sent soldiers, ships
and airplanes 'to Vietnam. Five other
countries also sent soldiers. Over 30
countries gave food, medical supplies
and many other things to help the
South Vietnamese. We have been
fighting very hard for six years to help
the South Vietnamese soldiers. Together
we have done well and the soldiers from
the North are not winning any more.
They are still trying to take over the
South but they know that the South
with our help is stronger than they are.
The South Vietnamese are becoming
such good soldiers that we are bringing
some of our men back to America. In
May and June last year American'and
South Vietnamese soldiers destroyed
the communist bases in the next-door
country of Cambodia. We did this
because the bases gave the communists a
chance to attack our men in South
Vietnam and then to run and hide in
Cambodia. Our action in Cambodia
made it safe to go on bringing our men
home. This year some South Viet-
namese forces, with the help of U.S. air
power, have moved into the nearby
country o(.La0s tO ,cot the supply lines
the communists need to carry on the
war in gouth Vietnam.
We and South Vietnam do not want
to take over the North and we do not
want to make the war bigger. All we
want to do is to stop the communists
from taking South Vietnam. President
Nixon has said that if the communists
go back home to the North and leave
the South- :done, the war will end. We
iii~iii! people called Viet M/nh were fighting
~ :.~:~.::: agaima Fro, nee which had ruled Vietnam
r
!!{ii!!i~ for many years. Many of the Viet Minh
:::::5: wanted Vietnam to be a communist
........
Editor, The Journal: i:!:i:i: dictatorship rather than a free country.
It seemed like all of a sudden !~ii~! The Vietnamese communists are es-
• :':':': pecially dangerous because they believe
1 started hearing about a place !:i:i:i: in the use of armed force and terror.
called "Inn Quest." A place where ::::::::
• :':':': The Viet Mirth finally won a big
kids could go to rap, listen to :.:.:.:.
• :':':': victory over the French forces. The
music or whatever they wanted, ..v.-.
(just about anything).........i:i:!:i: French and officials from some other
My first reaction was that "It :::::::: countries who were interested in Viet-
.-.%...
will never work". And it seemed a iii:iii! nam sat down to talk with the Viet
lot of people I came into contact :::::::: Mirth in the city of Geneva in
with also shared my same !iii!!!! Switzerland. They agreed to make peace
thought, so I forgot it, (for awhile !iii!:.!: and to divide Vietnam into two parts.
anyway), il The northern part is held by the .
Then one day last week I communists and is called North Viet- ~EAR CHILDREN: The story with the people because itsleaderswere
started to think about it again. I nam. South Vietnam is held by those • •you have just heard was made rich and corrupt and friendly with the
started questioning myself as to Vietnamese who do not want to live~ up by people in the American foreigners who had once controlled the
why it should not work. So l under communist rule. It is also called State Department. They are part of the country. So the people who ran the
called Mike Gibson, the guy :i:i:i:i the Republic of Vietnam. Many people government, and their job is to tell the South Vietnam government had to get
behind "Inn Quest" and asked i!i!iiii in the North went to live in the South
':':':': to get away from the communists. Many
him if I could meet with him :.:.:.:.
iiiiill more wanted to go too but the
somewhere to talk about it. communists broke the rules of the
We met downtown that same
":':':': agreement made at Geneva and would
day over coffee. All the time he ....v."v"
was talking 1 just kept thinking, !:i:i:!: not let them go. A few years went by.
"it's not going to work". 1 kept !iiiii!i The North Vietnamese were planning to
government's side of the story. In more and more help from the Ameri-
Vietnam there isa war, and ourcans.
government is on one side of the war. A
war is like a fight between two people, In the earl), days of the fighting, a
only much bigger. When someone who few Soldiers from the north came down
is in a fight tells you what the fight is all to help the South Vietnamese people
thinking of how many times I had !ii!iii take over all of South Vietnam by about, you must remember thatyou are who were J~tghting for a better govern-
elections because there were more getting only his side of the story. Here ment. But they were outnumbered 5 to
heard some cat talking about a Northerners to vote than Southerners are SOme of the important things the 1 by troops of the South Vietnam
coffee house or a place for kids to
go. and because the communists would State Department left out.of the story it government. Nevertheless, the South
We finished our coffee and 1 make sure, by force if necessary, that lust toldyou.. Vietnam troops were on the verge of
asked him if we could go up and more people would vote for the NorthThe people of Vietnam, like the being beaten, so America sent many,
see the "Inn Quest ' building. Sothan for the South. The leaders ofpeople of America, want to govern many soldiers. Two years ago we had
we were off. We w, li[nt inside and South Vietnam refused to take part in
that s when he first'started to sell elections that they knew would not be themselveg That is why they fought so more than 500,000 soldiers there. Plus
me on his idea, he took me from fair. This made the communist leaders hard for so many years against the lots and lots of artillery, tanks, planes,
room to room, telling me of of the North very angry, and they French, who were from a far-off bombs and napalm, which is a jellied
future plans for each room. Afterdecided to take over South Vietnam by country.. They have many differences gasoline that burns everything it
you talk to Mike I guess you forcel . . . among tl~emselves, lust as we do, but touches. Despite all this help, the South
know somehow that Inn Quest When the country was dividea into most of them were united in theirVietnam government still was not able
cannot fail, this guy won't let it. two parts, the communists had leftopposition to the French, lust as lnost to crush all the people who were
The last thing he said to me some men in the South who pretended of us were united in opposition to the fighting it.
was, can you try to get some to be like the Southerners. TheSe men British during our own Revolutionary A very important thing to remember
people together to come and get received orders to dig up the guns which lear. When the French were finally is that Vietnam has been badly hurt by
the work done so we can open. they had hidden and to kill people in defeated about 1 7 years ago, all of the war. More than one third of a
So, I'm asking now, let's get the South so the men in the South Vietnam would probably have been million people have been killed. More
to work and get it open. I thinkwould be afraid to fight against the
we can all make "Inn Quest" communists. These communists in the united under their leader, Ho Chi Mirth, than one million people have lost their
work. South, called guerrillas, would often go who has often been called the George
Dave Bachtell, Jr. into villages at night and kill important Washington of Vietnam. But the man
people such as the mayor and the school who was then the head of our State
Thl leeches teacher. Thiswould make the villagers Department, with the help of the
afraid to tell the South Vietnamese trench, persuaded Ho Chi Minh to
soldiers where the guerrillas were hiding.
The guerrillas did not wear uniforms accept a temporary division of the
country into north and south. Ho's
Editor, The Journal: and it was easy for them to hide m the enemies then fled to the south, tOOK
The grand jury should put the jungle or to pretend they were villagers, c°ntr°lthere, and tore up the agree-
spotlight on how many political Dttring this time we were sending guns
leaches which the state has on and supplies to the South Vietnamese so merit to hold ¢,'ee elections.
their payroll, who are receiving they could fight back. We also sent Naturally, the people in the north
some soldiers to advise them how to were ve~. angrv about this And so were
their wages for going to college;fight. ~ "'orth Viet- many people "in the south They felt
hiredn°t workingfor, on the job they were As time went on, tlae ~ . that the Americans and the "French and
And who has been getting the namese sent more and more menm Theytr°m Ho's e~wmies had played a trick on
thousands of cases of whiskey, the North into South Vietna . .them. Many people'in the south
beer and wine which the began to send soldiers who attacked the CMomsP~iftehd~b°UtreWhat had happened.
distilleries have been giving to the soldiers of the army of South Vietnam. put in jail, and some
liquor board? And how many and soon there was a real war going on. of tl~em were shot. Then the people in
thousands of cases of liquor The soldiers from the North and the the south took up arms, and that is how
which we are told has been guerrillas were well trained to fight, the war began. The government of
accidently broken in the state Things were going badly for the People
of the South The w able to
South Vietnam was not very popular
liquor warehouses? . y anted to be
J. L. "Red" Parsons
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are having talks with
North in the city of
these talks, we are
they will take all of the.!t
South Vietnam, we will
take all of our soldiers
Vietnam before
we are sure that the
can take care of
be breaking our promise
countries which are
then believe that our
and they would not
President Nixon is very
our men held prisoner bY
has said that as long as
holds a single
will have forces in
We are sorry the
are not ready to pull
but we think they
peace is better than
President Nixon and
that a good and just
Until the North
must have lots of pati,
on with the talks in
fighting in Vietnam.
homes. Most of the
have been destro.vdd.
tenth of all the
mined by chemical
suffered more loss
{for its sizeJ than
since the history
Most of this
Americanx
Most Americans
that they were
them now believe it
that we should
of Vietnam - north
up thek wounds and
arguments. That is
is bringing some of
But the Presidenthas
to do this. And he
long time before
and killing people
day that America
boys and girls and
fathers in Vietnam
There is a way
really care. Sit down
letter to President
D.C. Tell him you
tell him why, and
it NOW.